Massive overpayments were made and written off due to the impossibility of collecting the money.
Certainly, the ideas behind the new benefit service are supported by UNISON - a shift away from a 'business culture' concentrating on administration at a minimum cost to a 'benefits culture' concentrating on efficiency and maximum take up which should benefit workers and claimants.
In reality an apparently unaccountable management have ditched council policy and gone for ruthless cost cutting. Cuts in Unlikely victim of anti-left blacklist: MSF chief Roger Lyons Labour figures such as Jack Ashley, the former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, and Roger Lyons, now general secretary of the Manufacturing, Science, Finance union, cropped up alongside one man who was apparently listed merely because his wife had briefly been a member of the Young Communist League • "With union officials advocating playing it safe within the law, frustrated and impatient employees may be more likely to listen to those urging militant action." - Caprim Monitor when she was 16.
At the time of its collapse, Mr Winder was owed f24,804 and Mr Hardy £9,591. Peter Shipley, who specialises in smearing Labour candidates for Conservative Central Office, was owed £1,679.
The League kept files on at least 50,000 individuals, and vetted anything up to 400,000 • job applicants a year on behalf of over 2,000 leading compa-